© ipcm ®
Opening photo: New System Painting is a coating contractor specialising in plastics.
FOCUS ON TECHNOLOGY
SPECIAL ON PLASTICS, MDF & GLASS
New System Painting: When the Robotisation of Plants Becomes Synonymous with Production Flexibility and Result Repeatability Barbara Pennati ipcm®
P
rocess automation is becoming
some fear will result in high technological
their abuse. However, the concept of
more and more important in
unemployment; on the other hand, machines
“replacement” can be misleading.
modern global society. Things
have brought undoubted benefits to our
We should not compare artificial and
described in science fiction novels by
everyday and business lives, especially in
human intelligence, as people have a
visionary authors have now become reality
terms of safety, health, and quality.
characteristic that can hardly be transferred
and they are shaping an increasingly smart
Robots will certainly replace human beings
to robots: the ability to reprocess
future. On the one hand, doubts remain
in many fields and mankind has the duty to
experiences and knowledge in a
about the long-term implications of artificial
employ these technologies in such a way
cross-sectoral, creative, and unpredictable
intelligence and process automation, which
as to maximise their benefits and minimise
way that goes beyond mere mechanisms
66
N. 58 - JULY/AUGUST 2019 - international PAINT&COATING magazine